CDPH Environmental Asbestos and Demolition Notification contains Notices of Intent for demolition and asbestos abatement submitted to Chicago's Department of Environment and later the Department of Public Health. The dataset covers work started from January 1993 onward, with records transferred to CDPH for work beginning on or after January 1, 2012. It was published by data.cityofchicago.org.
Use Cases
- Map demolition activity density by Community Areas or Wards using the LOCATION, Community Areas, and Wards columns.
- Analyze temporal trends in NOTIFICATION TYPE submissions by aggregating records by START DATE and END DATE.
- Assess potential asbestos exposure risks by correlating APPLICATION ID records with Census Tracts and Zip Codes for neighborhood-level studies.
- Identify frequent OWNER/APPLICANT entities involved in asbestos abatement projects using the APPLICATION ID and COMMENT fields for compliance tracking.
Strengths
- Includes geospatial columns such as LATITUDE, LONGITUDE, and LOCATION for mapping.
- Contains multiple administrative geography columns like Census Tracts, Wards, and Community Areas for cross-analysis.
Limitations
- Sample data and total row count are unavailable, preventing assessment of dataset scale.
- Data freshness is unclear as the last platform update date may not reflect the actual data time_range, which ends at 2011 for DOE records.
- Potential for incomplete records due to the transition between the Department of Environment and CDPH in 2012.
Provenance
- Source
- data.cityofchicago.org
- Collection Method
- Notices of Intent submitted to the Department of Environment and later the Chicago Department of Public Health.
- Time Range
- January 1993 to December 31, 2011 for DOE; on or after January 1, 2012 for CDPH.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Chicago, Illinois, USA